Das Alliiertenband, 1982

CommentaryTanks roll across bridges, fighter jets fly in formations, aerial photographs of destroyed German cities, between them fade-ins of Klaus vom Bruch in a military green quilted jacket; sometimes he combs his hair backwards and sometimes he strokes his shoulders. In case there is a danger of forgetting the history of the TV of the time, at the end of the loop vom Bruch fades in a quotation by Karl Marx: »If nothing about human relationships changes the whole shit will start again from the beginning.«

Tanks roll across bridges, fighter jets fly in formations, aerial photographs of destroyed German cities, between them fade-ins of Klaus vom Bruch in a military green quilted jacket; sometimes he combs his hair backwards and sometimes he strokes his shoulders. In case there is a danger of forgetting the history of the TV of the time, at the end of the loop vom Bruch fades in a quotation by Karl Marx: »If nothing about human relationships changes the whole shit will start again from the beginning.«